G'morning all, I'm having a bit of trouble with perlmonks. This morning, I found that I get a blank page for a link, but if I changed the URL in the address bar from '.org' to '.com' I could access the page content.

I don't know if it's related to my being logged in or not, nor whether I'm getting a different server when I diddled the address. (I'm suspecting the former, though.)

Example: I started at this node, and when I clicked the link in the first reply, I get a blank page with http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=943568 in the address bar. On a whim, I changed the 'org' to 'com' and retried the link, and retried the link and got the expected page.

Browser:Firefox 3.6.20 "Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0"
uname -aLinux Boink 2.6.32-33-generic #70-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 7 21:09:46 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

I'm going to stop until I get to work, and leave my browser sitting until I get home again. So if there's any information you'd like me to gather on my end, let me know. When I return from work, I'll go back and dig up the other node I saw that returns a blank page and try it, too.

Notes:

  1. I've noticed nodes with empty content before, and it has been reproducible. This is, however, the first time I monkeyed with the address bar and got to the page.
  2. I haven't cleared my browser cache or anything (just in case I can get some helpful data).

Update: I tried the example at work (on a different computer, OS, browser and network) and have similar results. Rather than a blank page, I get a "Network Error" page from our web filtering system.

Browser:Firefox 7.0.1
OS:Windows 7 Professional, 32-bit

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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